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CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Keblagh e AzergiDataset ID:
cmmdtenxt0050mh0792d10knv
Release Date: 3/5/2026
Format: TXT
Size: 2.46 MB
The Hazargi Literature Corpus (Keblagh e Azergi) is a monolingual literary dataset for documenting and supporting computational research on Hazargi (Hazaragi), an eastern Persian (Dari) dialect spoken by Hazara communities in Afghanistan and the diaspora. It contains 12 digitized works (prose, poetry, folklore, drama) converted from Word into UTF-8 normalized plain text while preserving original orthography and dialectal features. Total size: ~0.5M tokens (513,483).
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.htmlRestrictions/Special Constraints
Forbidden Usage
The dataset must NOT be used for:
Ethical Review
- Texts sourced from publicly available literary materials. - No private, biometric, or sensitive personal data included. - Reviewed to avoid confidential or unpublished material. - Cultural sensitivity maintained during digitization and normalization.
Intended Use
This corpus is intended for: - Academic linguistic research - Dialectology studies - Historical Persian analysis - NLP model training - Corpus linguistics - Cultural preservation - Educational purposes
Hazargi (Dari Persian dialect group)
Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Western Iranian → Persian (Dari variety)
Primarily spoken in:
Estimated 399,000 Hazaragi-Dari speakers in Iran (2021 estimate).
آ ٬ ا ٬ ب ٬ پ ٬ ت ٬ ݖ ٬ ج ٬ چ ٬ خ ٬ د ٬ ۮ ٬ ر ٬ ز ٬ ژ٬ س ٬ ش ٬ غ٬ ٬ ف ٬ ق ٬ ک ٬ گ ٬ ل ٬ م ٬ ن ٬ و ٬ ۉ٬ ۆ٬ ی٬ ې ٬ ݷ ٬ ئ ٬ ۂ
~0.5M tokens (513K tokens / 513,483 tokens)
Compensated · similar languages
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